IBM and Nortel Ignite Telecom Industry Innovation With IMS and SOA Standards

IBM and Nortel Ignite Telecom Industry Innovation With IMS and SOA Standards

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Nortel (NYSE: NT) (TSX: NT) have reached new milestones in helping telecom carriers drive network convergence. It will give their subscribers a seamless voice, data and video communications experience across a wide range of devices accessed from any network — wireline, wireless or DSL/cable broadband. This includes fostering an expanded ecosystem for third parties to develop and test new converged applications, joint innovation centers, and Nortel integrating with IBM’s industry leading WebSphere software. In addition, the agreement facilitates the inclusion of Nortel Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) applications in IBM carrier solutions.

This new agreement builds on an existing relationship that has led to successful IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS) carrier customer trials across the globe. As part of the new agreement IBM and Nortel will use each of their current IMS developer and interoperability testing programs to accelerate and enable telecom application providers and carriers to bring new multimedia services to market, such as: presence capabilities, IP security/surveillance, child tracking, “find-your-buddy,” video dating, and enterprise business applications with click-to-call capabilities.

“IBM and Nortel are extending our market leading offerings to give carriers an enhanced and interoperable service execution environment,” said Tim Greisinger, vice president, communications industry, IBM Software. “Further, we are enabling a global ecosystem of third party independent software vendors (ISVs) to deliver next generation telecom services leveraging IBM’s open, IMS and SOA standards-based service delivery platform.”

“By combining the strengths of Nortel and IBM, we are simplifying communications and giving our carrier customers the tools they need to deploy new services and applications quickly and cost effectively,” said Alf Decardenas, general manager, Converged Multimedia Networks, Nortel. “Our partnership with IBM will give subscribers a more interactive and entertaining communications experience because they will be able to access their services from any device and roam seamlessly, with uninterrupted service, across any network.”

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